Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-28
PLAIN WORDS FOR OUR PEOPLE.

The suggestion to establish Central
and Northern California Immigration
Agency at Los Angeles, and which Mr.. T.
III. Goodman Of the Southern Pacific Com
pany-in letter published in the Rec
oRD-UNIoN yesterday-has urged shall be
done, is wise one. We must recognize
the fact which Mr.. Goodman rccites, that
at present Los Angeles lis "the migratory
center of the coast" But newcomers TO
that point are by no means all of the very
wealthy class, able to buy homesteads at
thousands per acre" large portion of
them come out to secure land at lower
valuations and which they can till. A
large proportion of the immigrants to the
south are people of much means, who seek
homes regardless Of cost, and not with
view Of land cultivation. Only few of
the former class can be accommodated at
the south for obvious reasons, the demands
OF the latter class being predominant, and
hence lands are put beyond the reach of
men whose investment will absorb most of
their means
Mr. Goodman says Stockton is about to
establish an agency in the south. Santa
Clara and Fresno counties have already
done so. Sacramento should do the same,
and in conjunction with her effort all the
central and nothern region can be repre-
sented. In short in this matter there
should be cordial cooperation, not divided
and contentious efforts A conoint exhibit
End agency cannot prove other than a
paying investment. Mr. Goodman informs
the people that the railroad company
intend Immediately to sell excursion
tickets in Los Angeles for the upper coun-
try, and thus any effort we may make will
have that powerful aid.
There should be no time lost in taking
advantage of the situation. The home
seekers are coming 10y the thousands per
week, and there is large portion of the
influx that needs only to he told we have
IN this section climate just TO their taste,
more desirable, we maintain, than that of
the south; soil more fertile and more easily
titled and what is better, lands in plenty
at prices far below the asking prices there.
The natural and logical reasons for this
latter fact can easily be given the home
seeker-the immense territory we have to
people; the great valley area, measurable
only by hundreds Of miles in length; the
immense stretch Of foolhill country; the
fact that lands have not been held here
for speculative purposes, but mostly given
over to large farming; that the absolute
need for irrigation has not been known to
us as at the south, and hence there has
been less effort made to divide large hold
ings; that wheat farming has made us,
heretofore, Indifferent to The spirit of i'm
migration, and that we are but beginning
10 awaken to the unreasonable greatness
and capacity of our resources and the need
for greatly increased population.
These facts viii impress the newcomer
with the deslrabiliiy of visiting section
offering him home at a modest figure
and in an area so broad as to give him the
greatest possible latitude for selection, and
70 prevent any extravagant advance in
values. tortify these statements by such
an exhibit as we know we can make; Offer
the immigrant cheap excursion rate to
enable him to visit the north and test the
verify of the statements made, and We
viii experience no difficulty in directing q
tide this way, which in turn, will bring OF
the speedy infiowing Of a current of de,
sirable immigration direct, and not vi:
the South
1t happens that the people of the Lo
Angeles section are friendly to the propo
sition now made. They realize that thu
seekers for cheap lands cannot be readily
accommodated there; they know that the,
will not be deprived Of any of the we'll
earned fruits Of their energy and Ion.
laboring that the feet Of the south Jar,
now securely planted upon the path of he
progress, and that there viii be no turn
ing back 1t is to their interest as to our
that the whole State be settled, and the.
have, we are inform ID, no obstacles to plac
in the path of our endeayor to initiate thei
example. In short. the time Of contention
has passed; the period of Jealousy ha
gone int the list of dead hours. 1t i
now labor of love and interest for al
California
This much upon paper; how much nov
will follow of actual work and actual con
tribution ? Newspaper work can extent
only to well-ie6nsd limits beyond tina